Departamento de Línguas

11º Ano | Inglês

PROVA ESCRITA | dezembro | Ano Letivo 2019/2020

Reading

Read the following text carefully and answer the questions on it.

Paradise Lost

Travelling is no longer a luxury good. Airlines like Ryanair and EasyJet have contributed to a form of
mass tourism that has made local residents feel like foreigners in cities like Barcelona and Rome. The
infrastructure is buckling under the pressure.

5 It doesn't take long before the woman at the hotel reception pulls out a city map of Porto. Look, she says,
there's the Old Town and the Douro, there's the harbour and here, by the way, the pride evident in her voice, is the
world's most beautiful bookshop: Livraria Lello.
It sounds fantastic and the place looks even more amazing in the photos. It's located in a two-storey, neo-
Gothic building with lots of dark wood, an abundance of old books, ornamentation and stained glass, and a curved
10 staircase right in the middle. It was opened in 1906, a cathedral of books, a dream for voracious bookworms from
all over the world.
The first thing you notice when approaching Livraria Lello is the long line in front of it. An imposing
bouncer stands at the door of the bookshop. To get in, you must first purchase a five-euro ticket bearing the
visage of Fernando Pessoa, Portugal's most famous poet, in the shop next door. There, too, visitors must wait in
15 line, with crowd-control barriers set up just like at the airport check-in desk. Those waiting in line are guided past
shelves full of souvenirs, postcards and keychains. The standard tourist trap. They all seem to be taking pictures
with their smartphones.
Just like the rest of the country, Livraria Lello stood on the verge of bankruptcy four years ago as a result
of the financial crisis. But even then, the bookshop had no lack of visitors. The problem was that people were
20 buying fewer and fewer books. Someone suggested the store ought to start charging an admission fee of five
euros. It may have sounded crazy at the time, but 4,000 people now visit it each day while during the summer, the
number of daily visitors swells to 5,000. The store had 1.2 million visitors in 2017 and revenues of over 7 million
euros.
More than anything, in fact, it has become a symbol for the predatory nature of modern-day tourism - a
25 style of travelling that is devouring all the beautiful places which drives it.
Tourists sit in traditional restaurants devoid of locals as they watch other tourists. They are no longer
places where people come together, but where divides seem to deepen. At times, it really does feel like a tourist
invasion. They come, they stay briefly and then they are gone again, but they act as though they own the cities
they visit.
30 The tourism industry suddenly finds itself confronted by a group that it hadn't previously paid much
attention to. Having always focused on the guests, it tended to overlook the hosts.
The virtue of hospitality "which one wants to invoke is destroyed by making use of it," German writer
Hans Magnus Enzensberger wrote back in 1958 in his widely cited treatise on mass tourism. At the time, mass
tourism as we know it today hadn't even been invented yet, and travelling was still the privilege of the well-to-do.
35 For most people, a visit to Venice or Rome was something they could only dream about. Modern-day tourism has
very little in common with that dream.
For residents of Porto, however, the bookshop has a different story to tell. It is one of economic upswing
in a country that was in the throes of crisis not all that long ago.
1. Say if the following sentences are True or False. Correct the false ones.
1.1 – Mass tourism is now a reality since travelling is cheaper than it used to be.
1.2 - The least relevant reason for tourists to visit Livraria Lello is to purchase books.
1.3 – More people started visiting Livraria Lello in order to avoid its bankruptcy.
1.4 - The expression “predatory nature of modern-day tourism ” refers to the excessive number of tourists in
diverse countries.
1.5 – According to the author of the article, welcoming tourists became detrimental to the locals due to
the use tourists made of it.
1.6 - Local people from Porto consider tourism an undesirable reality.

2. Find in the last six paragraphs of the text the synonyms of these words.
2.1 - edge
2.2 - privation
2.3 - rises
2.4 - pushes
2.5 - emptied
2.6 - antagonized
2.7 - disregard
2.8 - turnaround

3. Say what the following words refer to.

3.1 - “their” (line 16)
3.2 - “it” (line 21)
3.3 - “it [may have sounded]” (line 24)

4. Answer the questions, using your own words.

4.1 – Give your opinion about the title of the article.
4.2 – Explain the meaning of the following sentence: “ The infrastructure is buckling under the pressure.”
(line 2-3)
 Use of English

5 – Put each verb in brackets into a suitable past tense.

Harry went back to the camp the following morning, but it was in some confusion. Soldiers (5.1)
______ (wander) around carrying equipment from one place to another, but there (5.2) _____ (not seem)
to be any purpose to what they (5.3) ____ (do). Harry (5.4) ____ (never /be) in an army camp before,
but it (5.5) _______(not take) a genius to realise that most of the officers (5.6) _____ (take) the first
opportunity to abandon the men and head for safety. He (5.7) ______(try) to phone the newspaper, but
something (5.8) _______(happen) to the telephone lines He (5.9) ______(try) to find out what exactly
(5.10) ______(go) on, when the first plane (5.11) _____(fly) low over the camp. A wooden building a
few hundred yards away suddenly (5.12) _______(disappear) in an explosion of flame. Before long
bombs (5.13) _______(explode) all around him, and then everything (5.14) _____ (go) quiet. The planes
(5.15) ______(vanish) as suddenly as they (5.16) _______(appear). Smoke (5.17) ____(rise) from
burning buildings. A dead man (5.18) _______ (lie) next to Harry, the first dead person he (5.19)
______ (ever/ see). And suddenly it (5.20) _____ (begin) to rain.

6. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, using the word given.
Use between three to five words. Do not change the word given.

6.1 - Martha had the irritating habit of making trouble. ALWAYS

Martha _______ trouble.
6.2 - Diana wasn’t always as rude as that. BE
Diana _______ as rude as that.
6.3 - When she was a child, she hated playing with dolls. WOULD
During her childhood, she _______ with dolls.

7 - Fill in the gaps with the correct word(s) from the list: about, around, avoid, catering, crowds, DIY,
escape, expedition, for, hustle, in, off, out, people, see, self, sights, soaked, sun, take, to, up, view,
voyage.

7.1 – As we don’t like eating in restaurants, we took an apartment and opted for a _____ _____ holiday.
In the end, it was much cheaper, as well.
7.2 - The Titanic’s maiden _____ resulted in a huge tragedy.
7.3 - Turn right here and head _____ the valley. The road winds _____ fields and plains.
7.4 - I had been in my study for weeks, sleeping in the couch. As soon as I emailed my dissertation, I
deserved to _____ time _____. I packed my bathing suit and _____ _____ the _____ on the loneliest
beach for three days. Exactly, I also wanted to _____ the _____.
7.5 – She decided to _____ the ______ and bustle of New York during a week and _____ the _____,
namely that new museum she had read about in the Time.
Writing

8 – Write a short story (150-200 words) that starts the following way:

‘Three of us. We were the only ones left, the only ones to make it to the island.’ 

Cotações:

1. 6  5= 30 4. 2  15= 30 7. 10  2= 20
2. 8  4= 32 5. 20  1= 20 8. 50
3. 3  3= 9 6. 3  3= 9
 CORRECTION

1. Say if the following sentences are True or False. Correct the false ones.
1.1 – True
1.2 - True
1.3 – False. More people started visiting Livraria Lello because it was advertised as the most beautiful
bookshop.
1.4 – True.
1.5 – True.
1.6 – False: Local people from Porto consider tourism part of the key to economic disaster.

2. Find in the last six paragraphs of the text the synonyms of these words.
2.1 – “verge”
2.2 – “lack”
2.3 – “swells”
2.4 – “drives”
2.5 – “devoid”
2.6 – “confronted”
2.7 – “overlook”
2.8 – “upswing”

3. Say what the following words refer to.

3.1 - “their” refers to “visitors” or “those waiting in line”.
3.2 - “it [may have sounded]” refers to suggesting an admission fee of 5 euros.
3.3 - “it” refers to “modern-day tourism”.

4.1 – Personal answer

4.2 – “The infrastructure is buckling under the pressure” means that touristic places where the number
of tourists has exceeded the number of inhabitants have been under such the strain of strangers’ presence
that the population can’t help feeling they do not belong to their hometowns and they are getting
annoyed.

5. Soldiers (5.1) were wandering (5.2) didn’t seem (5.3) were doing (5.4) had never been but it (5.5)
did not take (5.6) had taken (5.7) tried (5.8) had happened (5.9) was trying(try) (5.10) was going
(5.11) flew (5.12) disappearing (5.13) were exploding (5.14) went (5.15) vanished (5.16) appeared.
Smoke (5.17) was rising (5.18) was lying (5.19) had ever seen (5.20) began)

6.1 - Martha used to / would always make trouble.

6.2 - Diana did not use to be as rude as that.
6.3 - During her childhood, she would not play with dolls.

7.1 – opted for a self-catering holiday. In the end, it was much cheaper, as well.
7.2 - The Titanic’s maiden voyage resulted in a huge tragedy.
7.3 - Turn right here and head for the valley. The road winds around
7.4 - take time off, I packed my bathing suit and soaked up the sun wanted to escape the crowds
7.5 – She decided to avoid the hustle and bustle of New York during a week and see the sights
8 – Personal answer